Edmund lunkeniieimer



(No Model.)

B. LUNKENHEIMER.

OIL CUP.

No. 435,607. Patented Sept. 2, 1890.

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EDMUND LUNKENIIEIMER, OF CINCINNATI, ()IIIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE IIUNK-ENIlEIhIER BRASS MANUFALITURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

OIL-CUP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 35,607, dated September2, 1890.

Application filed March 10, 1890. Serial No. 3433M. (Noinodol-l To allwhom it may concern: ing scutcheon journaled on the upper end of Be itknown I, EDMUND LUNKENHEIMER, a the tube E, immediately above andrestingon citizen ot the United States, residing at Cinthe cap D, and toprevent the movements of cinnati, in the county of Hamilton and Statesaid scutcheon being com municatcd to and 5 of Ohio, have inventedacertain new and useloosening the binding-nut K a flat-sided or fulImprovement in Oil-Cups, of which the D washer was interposed betweenthe scutch following is a description, reference being con andbinding-nut around the tube E, onehad to the accompanying drawings. sideof the latter being flattened or cut away In its general appearance andconstruction to snugly fit the hole in the washer. to my improvedoil-cup resembles that shown in My presentinvention consists indispensing reissued Letters Patent No. 10,018, granted with both theswinging scutcheon and D- me March 15, 1887, my present inventionrewasher as heretofore employed. To that end lating principally to anovel method of cov- I employ a simple plate M for covering the eringand uncovering the hole through which filling-hole I). This plate is notjournaled on r the cup is tilled with oil. the upper end of the tube E,as heretofore,

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a side but is rigidly secured to itin any suitable elevation of my improved cup; Fig. 2, a vermanner, inthe present instance by having a tical section through its center; Fig.3, a top flat-sided hole in its inner end which fits the plan view withthe valve-stein and bindingcorrespondiugly-shaped upper end of the tubenut removed, and Fig. la corresponding View E in the same manner as aDwasher. The with the top cap turned to uncover the fillingfilling-holeIi is covered and uncovered by role. turning the top cap D of the cup,and thereby The body of the cup is composed of a metal movin the holeunder and from under the base A, having an exleriorly-threaded shankplate M, the degree of friction against which :5 13 for attaching thecup to the journal to be the cap turns being regulated by thebindingoiled, an upper metal cap D, and an internut K, while the plate Mprevents the nut beposed glass cylinder 0, confined between the ingloosened by the cap. The outer edge of cap of the base A and the uppercap D. The the cap is preferably milled to enable it to be base A isprovided with an upwardly-extendbetter grasped, and a pin N, coming incono ing tube E, whose upper end is threaded eX tact with the plate \I,arrests the turning of t-eriorly and projects above the top of the capthe cap when the filling-hole has passed un- I), while its lower endcommunicates with an der and is covered by said plate. It will thusoutlctpassage F, extending down through the be seen that I havesimpliticd the construcshank I A valve-stem G, having a lower tion ofthis class of oil-cups by entirely d'is- 5 threaded portion and pointedend and propensing with one of the separate parts forvided at its upperend with a thumb-piece II merlyemployedintheirconstruction,theplate forturning it, passes down through the tube M taking the place of both theswinging E. The threaded portion of the stem engages scutcheon andD-washer, while the efficiency corresponding threads in the lowerportion of of the cup and simplicity of its operation-are 9c 40 the tubeE, so that the stem maybe raised or not affected.

lowered by turning it, while its pointed end .Ily invention is notlimited to the particu finds a seat in the upper end of the passage larconst ruet ion of the cup shown in the draw- F, just below an orifice Iopeninginto theinings, its essential novelty consisting in the terior ofthe cup. Suitable paekil'ig-rings J combination of: the revoluble topwith the 5 are interposed between the ends of the eylincovering-platerigidly secured upon the cender C and the metal caps, and a bindingnuttral tube.

K. screwed upon the upper threaded end of Having thus fully described myinvention, the tube E, clamps the parts together. I claim- IIeretofore,as illustratedin mypatentabove 1. In an oil-cup such as described, thecom- 1C0 5o referred to, the filling-hole L in the upper cap bination,with the base A, having the central D has been covered and uncovered bya swingtube E rigidly mounted thereon, and the revohaving thefilling-orifice therein, and the bindin g-n'nt for holding the cover inplace, of the covering-plate interposed between the cover andbinding-nut and rigidly secured to the central tube, whereby itsrotation with the cover and loosening of the binding-nut are prevented,substantially as described.

EDMUND LUNKENHEIMER.

WVitnesses:

EDWARD REOTOR,

CHARLES BILLoN.

